Study: Irreversible treatment for gender-confused kids harmful

Research examining the sexuality of gender-nonconforming children shows that doctors and parents who provide treatment to transition them to their unnatural preferred sex are ushering in more detrimental effects to youths’ health and well-being than benefits.

Dr. Lawremce S. Mayer and Dr. Paul R. McHugh divulged in the Sexuality and Gender report released this week that an examination of biological, psychological and social science research shows that gender-change therapy in numerous forms does America’s youth a true disservice.

“[Children] are increasingly receiving therapies that affirm their felt genders, and even hormone treatments or surgical modifications at young ages,” the doctors stated in their report that is slated to be published in The New Atlantis’ fall 2016 edition. “But the majority of children who identify as a gender that does not conform to their biological sex will no longer do so by the time they reach adulthood.”

The experts sent out the warning that adults may be inflicting irreversible damage on gender-confused kids.

“We are disturbed and alarmed by the severity and irreversibility of some interventions being publicly discussed and employed for children,” Mayer and McHugh continued.

Really such as thing as five -year-olds ‘in the wrong body?’

Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) Executive Director Regina Griggs stresses that the new Sexuality and Gender report confirms what “many of us have known and read about for years” regarding the harmful physical, emotional and social consequences of changing the sexual identity of children.

“Realignment surgery destroys healthy body parts, but genetically, you will still be the same male or female,” Griggs told LifeSiteNews. “Minors need to be taught to love and appreciate who they are as male or female, not some fictional concept that surgery can make everything happy and exciting.”

Other findings from the study point to the deleterious effects of transitioning youth from their biological sex to their preferred sex.

“The hypothesis that gender identity is an innate, fixed property of human beings that is independent of biological sex — that a person might be ‘a man trapped in a woman’s body’ or ‘a woman trapped in a man’s body’ — is not supported by scientific evidence,” the report states. “Compared to the general population, adults who have undergone sex-reassignment surgery continue to have a higher risk of experiencing poor mental health outcomes.”

The ill-effects extend all the way to serious suicidal tendencies.

“One study found that, compared to controls, sex-reassigned individuals were about five times more likely to attempt suicide and about 19 times more likely to die by suicide,” the research indicates.

Mayer and McHugh also discovered that those attempting to treat individuals experiencing gender confusion should be much more careful when dealing with youth, in particular.

“Children are a special case when addressing transgender issues,” the medical experts asserted in their report. “Only a minority of children who experience cross-gender identification will continue to do so into adolescence or adulthood.”

Bad science

In fact, contrary to much of the teachings in public schools and institutions of higher learning, treating youth to transform their sexual identity has virtually none — if any — positive effects.

Researchers also reveal in their study that contrary to the scientific evidence out there, they have witnessed a greatly “concerning” skyrocketing of the number of children who have been referred to gender dysphoria clinics for hormonal treatment over the past few years.

“This approach involves helping the children to self-identify even more with the gender label they prefer at the time,” those examining the studies explained. “One component of the gender-affirming approach has been the use of hormone treatments for adolescents in order to delay the onset of sex-typical characteristics during puberty and alleviate the feelings of dysphoria the adolescents will experience as their bodies develop sex-typical characteristics that are at odds with the gender with which they identify.”

They sent a word of caution about the permanent damage that parents and doctors can inflict on children by taking the politically correct route and moving forward with some type of gender-change therapy.

“We are disturbed and alarmed by the severity and irreversibility of some interventions being publicly discussed and employed for children,” the report went on, adding that these concerns are being examined through ongoing research. “There is relatively little evidence for the therapeutic value of these kinds of puberty-delaying treatments, but they are currently the subject of a large clinical study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.”

According to Griggs, a close examination of this latest research should be conducted by parents of children who are contemplating a change in their sexual identity. She advises parents that since children’s brains are not fully developed until they reach their mid-20s, they should use wisdom and not encourage their little ones to undergo medical treatment for a psychological issue that will likely resolve itself as they mature into young adults.

“Parents need to read this study and work to help their children love and respect who they were created to be,” Griggs concluded.

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If you want to know how perverted doctors and parents who provide treatment to transition children to their unnatural preferred sex are, google “David Reimer” to see how bad it really is.

Briefly; David was born one of two identical twin boys and during a botched circumcision (doctor used a discredited procedure) his penis was destroyed beyond repair. His parents took him to Johns Hopkins and Dr. John Money. Dr. Money convinced the parents to raise David as a girl, and they renamed him Brenda. This all occurred before David was two years old. Long story short, by age seven David was reverting to a normal biological boy. By fifteen he had stopped the hormone treatment and reverted completely to being a young man. Because of his early life and the psychological damage inflicted upon him, he eventually committed suicide.

I fail to see how morality has anything at all to do with the condition of ones birth. Even Jesus recognized the lack of choice to be a given fact in his remarks in the book of Matthew to his disciples during a discussion on the topic of marriage.

In Jesus’ time the term transgender did not yet exist. The much less accurate term eunuch was the most frequently used term when referring to a transgender person. From my perspective, it would seem that denying the life condition of anyone that has been recognized as having been ‘born that way’ by such an important figure as the Messiah himself would run dangerously close to denying a biblical truth.

Matthew 19:12 (NIV)

12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others–and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”

And what imo is worse, is there is a largening segment of society imo that feels if the parent doesn’t give IN to what said little ‘darling’ wants to do, that parent is being an abusive parent by NOT coddling him/her/it.

Johns Hopkins that had the longest experience with transsexual issues stopped doing the surgery, finding it unethical as post surgery patients had the same problems if not more.

Transgenderism is likely a form of body dysmorpism where a person feels revulsion for his or her body as it is to the point of withdrawing or even mutilating themselves (with multiple plastic surgeries for example). An extreme form called Body Integrity Identity Disorder has victims wanting healthy arms or legs amputated because the owner feels “they do not belong”. Most ethical surgeons would cringe at doing such a thing but when it comes to lopping off sexual organs, all of a sudden it’s the thing to do?

When a man thinks he’s Napoleon, he can dress in a cocked hat all he wants but he’s not Napoleon and we don’t tell him he’s Napoleon. But when a man thinks he’s a woman, we’re supposed to go along with his DELUSION?

It seems to me that whatever a young person WANTS to do our culture and most parents are way too eager to agree with. It’s as if the confused kids have reversed roles with their parents and so-called experts. The kids call the shots and the adults acquiesce. Whether it’s the kind of clothes they think they have to have, the places they want to go, the times they think they should come home, the people they want to associate with, the kids, NOT the parents, ultimately decide. So it’s no surprise to add gender changing to the lists of things JR must have if THEY feel it’s right.

The McHugh/Mayer article is a meta-analysis of many studies conducted to date and I am currently reading it. In opposition to their conclusions, for example, are many postings on You Tube (e.g., “boy to girl”) that present a somewhat different picture, all things considered. There, one may read about and view videos of successful transitions, where the subject speaks of feeling happy for the first time in his/her life. True, we don’t hear much about the failures, but the success stories are impressive. McHugh/Mayer make the point that the data show that starting to transition a youngster may well be a terrible and tragic mistake. This is probably true, but on You Tube you see many older males who just never felt comfortable, over many unhappy years and into adulthood, who transitioned to females and felt happy and “all there” for the first time in their lives.
Obviously, this subject must be examined with further studies.

And exactly how much did society have to pretzel itself to humor them and make these people “happy”? They say they’re happy but they are still not the sex to which they have transitioned and never will be, just a (usually poor) facsimile. One should be as tolerant toward this sexual aberration as with any disability but one should not be made to agree with them that they are what their DNA says they’re not on pain of being dragged before some human rights tribunal or having one’s career ruined.

Men who transition make themselves into a man’s concept of what a woman is or should be – like the rather cartoony Bruce Gender – with hair extensions, makeup, judicious plastic surgery, hormones and sexy clothing. Are they sexually attracted to men as 98% of women are? No, the majority of such feMales retain their attraction to women and now call themselves “lesbians”. That alone should inform a thinking person that their mental delusions can’t be manipulated into physical reality and they don’t feel what most women feel.

U-tube? Really? The American Psychiatric Association classifies gender dysmorphia and gender dysphoria as MENTAL ILLNESSES. To encourage the development of this in children and adolescents is nothing short of child abuse/child endangerment. Parents and professionals who engage in fostering these mental illnesses in minors should be thrown in jail for a long time.
If you form your opinions on what you see on U-tube, I have some nice property on Mars you may be interested in. Just search U-tube for it.

i would like to point out that Paul McHugh stated that he intended to destroy the transgender medical services at johns Hopkins before he ever started working there.

Psychiatric Misadventures

Paul R. McHugh

Chapter 3 Paragraph 4

This interrelationship of cultural antinomianism and a psychiatric misplaced emphasis is seen at its grimmest in the practice known as sex-reassignment surgery. I happen to know about this because Johns Hopkins was one of the places in the United States where this practice was given its start. It was part of my intention, when I arrived in Baltimore in 1975, to help end it.

This is not the actions of a man desiring to pursue his vocation as a means to help anyone. These are the words of a man bent on furthering an agenda to further his own ambitions and enforce his own views of right and wrong on his patients, while pointedly ignoring the best interests of those people that placed their trust in him and allowed them to treat him.

Walt Heyer openly admitted that he lied to his doctors in order to live out a fantasy. If ever there was a real example of autogynephilia, it is Walt Heyer. McHugh also admitted that he wanted to destroy the transgender clinic at Johns Hopkins even before he arrived there.

Much to the consternation of most conservatives, there is a growing body of clinical evidence to show that there really is a biological origin for transgender identity. “In 1973, the weight of empirical data, coupled with changing social norms and the development of a politically active gay community in the United States, led the Board of Directors of the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).” [per simple google search-American Psychiatric Association]

The American Psychiatric Association reclassified “gender identity disorder” as “gender dysphoria” and dropped the classification of mental illness and relabeled it as a medical condition in 2011. “Gender dysphoria used to be called “gender identity disorder.” But the mismatch between body and internal sense of gender is not a mental illness. Instead, what need to be addressed are the stress, anxiety, and depression that go along with it.”http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/gender-dysphoria

chutney,
Thank you for your circular argument.
“Board of Directors of the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)” followed by “The American Psychiatric Association reclassified “gender identity disorder” as “gender dysphoria” and dropped the classification of mental illness and relabeled it as a medical condition” Both of these classification indicate a treatable condition.
Second; your “empirical data” is defined,

Full Definition of empirical

1
: originating in or based on observation or experience

2
: relying on experience or observation alone often without due regard for system and theory

3
: capable of being verified or disproved by observation or experiment

Completely subject to Interpretation.
We all thank you for a meaningless and entertaining post that does more to disprove your position than to support it.
I look forward to reading your next post for a comedic excerpt.

I notice that people just,” believe what they prefer to believe”. It includes some who should know better.

Children are not allowed to drink or drive until they have some maturity. It is appalling that someone. especially a parent, would mutilate them before they have mature experience and consent including a mature full set of hormones which can be as late as in early twenties.

That said, sexuality is very complicated and emotionally masked by secrecy and some denial. There a lot of things going on sexually in the, “normal”, element of society that points out that many are throwing stones from a glass house.
Genetics and hormone levels of a developing embryo may lead to some innate variations. For example, if crossing over during cell division results in an X chromosome picking up an SRY gene, a woman will look like a female but feel like she should be a man. There are varying levels of testosterone and Estrogen in all of us to the point that some individuals are outside of the majority to the level of being obvious.

Accepting differences in race, color and sexual preference or religion
requires intelligent understanding. I am not comfortable with the thought of being gay, but I recognize that people with transgender issues also make important contributions to society and have the same rights as the rest of us. They are different from most, yet part of the plan of life, not broken.